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Letters to a Young Novelist (Picador) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Letters to a Young NovelistMario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe--Borges, Bierce, Celine, Cortazar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet--he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversation...
Full description- Publisher: St Martin's Press
- Published: 01 June 2003
- Format: Paperback 10 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary | Creative Writing & Creative Writing Guides | Writing & Editing Guides | Literary Studies: General | Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780312421724 ISBN 10: 0312421729
- Sales rank: 147,530
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Full description for Letters to a Young Novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa condenses a lifetime of writing, reading, and thought into an essential manual for aspiring writers. Drawing on the stories and novels of writers from around the globe--Borges, Bierce, Celine, Cortazar, Faulkner, Kafka, Robbe-Grillet--he lays bare the inner workings of fiction, all the while urging young novelists not to lose touch with the elemental urge to create. Conversational, eloquent, and effortlessly erudite, this little book is destined to be read and re-read by young writers, old writers, would-be writers, and all those with a stake in the world of letters.
